[edblarney]

Because as the poster suggested, the left-right continuum is not sufficient to describe todays political reality.

But I disagree with the suggestion that 'there is no more left/right'.

If you take the perspective that there is a globalist/localist divide in both camps, it fairly succinctly explains what is going in in politics all over the Western world.

This is not a novel idea - I'm explaining what others have already professed.

Some added terminology is necessary because Americans use the term 'Liberal' - which in the rest of the world means 'Classical Liberal' - or in American terms 'Libertarian' - and so the mis-matching of terms creates a lot of confusion.